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October 18, 2021

Logic Pro 10.7 Is Here! Check Out Brand New Spatial Mixing With Dolby Atmos

 

 

HECK YES! Logic Pro 10.7 is here! And what it brings with it is the next frontier of audio production.

And that’s because Spatial Mixing with Dolby Atmos is now fully integrated and native to Logic Pro.

Remember when Apple introduced Spatial Audio to Apple Music earlier this year? That announcement introduced a whole new way of experiencing music.

With Spatial Audio, music has gone from stereo to 3D. Where the tracks in a song are no longer stuck between 2 speakers. Instead, tracks feel and sound like they are coming from all around you:

  • From in front of you
  • To behind you
  • To the left
  • To the right
  • And even above you

And anywhere between!

Of course, the workflow required to craft Spatial mixes was pretty convoluted (and expensive).

First, you needed a separate application called the Dolby Atmos Renderer. Then you needed a massive surround speaker setup (read 12 speakers).

Oh, and then there’s having to juggle Logic Pro and the Renderer. Routing tracks to the renderer. A dedicated Dolby plugin for panning. And other workflow killers.

But now, with Logic Pro 10.7, Spatial Mixing has been truly democratized. Because the Dolby Atmos renderer is now built directly into Logic Pro.

No crazy routing or app juggling. In fact, you don’t even need a surround speaker setup. With the Binaural Monitoring Format, all you ned is a pair of headphones.

Sounds crazy, right?

As if that news wasn’t big enough, Logic Pro comes with loads of new content and features. Including:

  • Demo project(s) of Lil Nas X’s hit song ‘Montero’ in 2 versions (Classic Stereo & Spatial Mixed versions)
  • 8 new Producer Packs from some of the top producers in the industry (Mark Ronson, Oak Felder, TRAKGIRL, and more). Which includes:
    • 2800 new royalty-free Apple Loops
    • 120 new instrument patches
    • 50 new vintage and modern drum machine kits
  • Huge updates to the Step Sequencer, including Live Recording Mode. Which allows you to perform into the Step Sequencer

And much more 🙂

There’s a ton to explore. So check out both part 1 and part 2 of WLPR’s 10.7 walkthroughs above.

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  1. Wayne Mitchell says

    October 18, 2021 at 6:58 pm

    Great, informative article, thanks Chris!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      October 19, 2021 at 2:47 pm

      Thanks so much for the kind words, Wayne!

      Reply
  2. Kelvyn Hallifax says

    October 19, 2021 at 4:22 am

    Kudos! Thank you for this amazingly succinct and incredibly detailed fast review of Logics new update. Nice one:)

    Reply
    • Chris says

      October 19, 2021 at 2:47 pm

      So glad you’re enjoyed the videos, Kelvyn 🙂

      Reply
  3. Tom says

    October 19, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    Great overview. Thank you!

    Reply
  4. Trevor says

    October 20, 2021 at 2:30 pm

    Hi Chris, What if I don’t want any of this. How can I avoid it all. Is it easy to avoid it.

    Reply
    • Chris says

      October 20, 2021 at 2:33 pm

      Hey Trevor, no problem! I would just make sure that you don’t have auto updates enabled on your Mac. If you go to System Preferences > Software Update, there’s an option to enable or disable “Automatically keep my Mac up to date.”

      As long as that is disabled you don’t have to worry about accidentally downloading 10.7.

      Reply
  5. Jamie Wedel says

    October 21, 2021 at 12:29 pm

    What an incredible update. We’re about to see a majority of new music released with spatial formats, and I love it. Thanks so much.

    Reply
  6. James Davidson says

    October 21, 2021 at 4:48 pm

    Very informative. Thank you.

    Reply
  7. Jeffrey Byron says

    April 19, 2023 at 2:32 am

    Does anyone know how to set speaker timing using Logic? Is it possible? I’m trying to time align my ATMOS setup. I’m using UAD hardware, and can’t find a solution with their software either. Basically I just need to add sample delay to my speakers to time them. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      April 19, 2023 at 10:37 am

      Hi Jeffrey, yes it is possible! First, place a multi-mono instance of the Sample Delay plug-in after the Atmos plug-in on the Master Channel Strip. Then set each channel output of the Sample Delay plug-in to “-“. So instead of assigning each channel to a group (A-F), you are able to adjust all channels separately.

      From there dial in the time delays for each individual channel. Be sure to save your Sample Delay settings as a preset.

      Also – if you switch to the Dolby or Apple binaural renderers the Sample Delay will still delay the left and right channels, which will most likely sound weird. I would bypass the Sample Delay plug-in when not listening on speakers.

      Lastly – Voxengo has their free Sound Delay plug-in, which allows you to adjust time on a more granular scale. You might prefer to use that instead as a multi mono plug-in:

      https://www.voxengo.com/product/sounddelay/

      Reply

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